Archive | Sheepdog Diaries

The ‘L’ plates are on the Land rover, but maybe Sweep doesn’t need them anymore! As with all of my sheepdog’s Sweep’s training has been full of ups and downs. He’s always been keen on his work although not...

We never like to tempt fate by mentioning our new arrivals too soon, but I think we can now say that Zola has 4 healthy pups, two dogs and two bitches. They arrived last Monday night without any problems...

Zola is now nearly three years old, and has become a fine sheepdog. She’s still obsessively keen on her work, and although there are moments when her instinct takes over from my commands, she’s doing pretty well. In fact...

If you came to our displays over the summer months you may have met my new young sheepdog ‘Sweep.’ He’s one of Fly’s pup’s, born a year ago, and for the past six months he’s been undergoing his first...

The summer months are busy for us at Borough Farm, and competing at Sheepdog trials had to take second place to all of the commitments on the farm, but last Saturday I made it to the Brentor trial on...

For the past 2 months Fly has been suffering with occasional lameness. In the first place she was severely lame, with a hard lump obvious on the side of her foot. A trip to the vets was inconclusive, we...